he left London with Élisabeth d'Ennetières, with whom he would stay for the rest of his life. They settled in Albano, near Rome. In the winter of 1925–26, they lived in Brussels, then from March 1926, in Paris, where he met Antonin Artaud. They also stayed regularly Solaia near Siena in Italy, where De Bosschere worked on his many novels and poetry collections. "l'Obscure" The work of De Bosschere was marked by a persistent spiritual seeking in his life he developed a fascination with the occult, the spiritual, the obscure and the sexual. He gave himself the nickname "Satan" and "l'Obscure", which formed the title of Satan l'Obscure (1933), his second autobiographical novel after Marthe et l'Enragé. The decade of the '30s was difficult for De Bosschere. He wrote several novels that he regarded as failures and found little illustration work due to the poor economic climate. From 1938 he lived a secluded life in La Châtre in central France. He kept a diary from 1946 titled Journal d'un Rebelle Solitaire that has remained unreleased. He also made two anthologies of most of his poetry: Derniers poèmes de l'Obscure (1948) and Héritiers de l'abime (1950). Awards and death In September 1952 he received the Prix de la Méditerranée and in November the Mandat des Poètes. A year later he died at the age of 74 in the hospital in Châteauroux. Following his death several of his works were published, but much of the work, which is kept in the Archives et Musée de la littérature in Brussels, of this prolific writer has remained unpublished. Selected bibliography Works in English The Closed Door, trans. F. S. Flint. John Lane: New York, 1917. Folk Tales of Flanders (also pub. as Beasts and Men). London: William Heinemann, 1918. The City Curious. London: William Heinemann, 1920. Weird Islands. London: William Heinemann, 1921. The Love Books of Ovid. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1925 – 24 plates. Marthe and the Madman, trans. Pierre Loving. New York: Covici-Friede, 1928. Peacocks and Other Mysteries, trans. Frederick Street Hoppin. New York: Edmond Byrne Hackett, 1941. The House of Forsaken Hope, trans. Donald MacAndrew (from Satan, l'Obscure). London: Fortune Press, 1942. External links 1878 births 1953 deaths People from Uccle Belgian painters Art Nouveau painters 20th-century Belgian novelists Belgian male novelists Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp) alumni 20th-century Belgian poets Belgian male poets 20th-century Belgian male writers